Hello, Technically this is a personal statement and not one on behalf of the Foundation, but I am reasonably confident that whatever CTO we hire will consider the protection of reader privacy to be important.
Thank you, James Hare -- *James Hare* (he/him) Associate Product Manager Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 3:37 PM James Salsman <jsals...@gmail.com> wrote: > I noticed just now that the Foundation is soliciting applications for a > new CTO: > https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6515003866130505729 > > Can we please hire a CTO who would prefer to protect reader privacy > above the interests of any State or non-state actors, whether they > have infiltrated staff, contractor, and NDA signatory ranks, and > whether it interferes with reader statistics and analytics or not, > please? > > In particular, I would like to repeat my request that we should not be > logging > personally identifiable information which might increase our subpoena > burden or result in privacy violation incidents. Fuzzing geolocation > is okay, but we should not be transmitting IP addresses into logs > across even a LAN, for example, and we certainly shouldn't be > purchasing hardware with backdoor coprocessors wasting electricity and > exposing us to government or similar intrusions: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/analytics/2017-January/005696.html > > Best regards, > Jim > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > wiki-researc...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
